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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: branch37 on August 18, 2012, 04:43:29 PM
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Everytime I try to open steam, the updater starts and crashes. I get an error message saying "the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process" Can anybody help me here? :bhead
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Try looking for another instance in task manager, if that fails, reboot and it will be ok.
Sometimes, Steam hangs and you need to disable the process to restart it.
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now its giving me "unable to open "SteamTemp.exe" for writing :headscratch:
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when something like that happens you can log off steam, go to the folder and delete everything other then the steamapps folder (where all your games are) and the steam.exe
then run the steam.exe and it will force an update, will take some minutes, it will think you are accessing from another computer, so you check your email for the code etc etc and there you go
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The update got to 26% and then crashed with the same error message
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Now its telling me "Steam.exe(main exception): ERROR: deleted Steam.exe but the file is still there."
:bhead :bhead
Can I just completely delete steam and start over?
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you could but that will make you download all your games again ): try making a backup of steamapps before you delete everything then
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ok i completley delete everything related to steam that i can find, but upon the new download and install, the update gets to 26% and crashes with the same error message.
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Prolly have to plow through registry and remove all references to it
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Prolly have to plow through registry and remove all references to it
so would that be everything that gets put under "Valve" or does it tend to pop up in other places as well?
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Make sure that the Steam service "Steam Client Service" hasn't been disabled.
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Prolly have to plow through registry and remove all references to it
be careful with the Registry...
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Make sure that the Steam service "Steam Client Service" hasn't been disabled.
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It shows in the task manager as stopped and when I start it i get this message,
"The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion."
Its gotten to the point where I just want to get rid of steam completely and start over, but I cant even freakin do that.
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It shows in the task manager as stopped and when I start it i get this message,
"The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion."
Its gotten to the point where I just want to get rid of steam completely and start over, but I cant even freakin do that.
the only way to completely remove i would be in the Registry, but you have to be SUPER careful when doing this.
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ive tried. Ive gone through and deleted everything related to steam or valve i can find, I guess im missing something.
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ive tried. Ive gone through and deleted everything related to steam or valve i can find, I guess im missing something.
in your registry too :headscratch:
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in your registry too :headscratch:
Yep....done everything I can think of several times. Downloads and installs fine, but then the updater makes it to 26%,, you know the damn story already
EDIT: By the way, everything updated and runs fine on my laptop which runs freakin vista :rolleyes:
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I dont believe its relevent to Steam, but do they have a 32-bit and a 64-bit version of it? I have it on my machine, and I went onto the website and didnt see it, but I didnt poke around too much. Only other thing I can think of....but even that doesnt seem like it would matter, but I could be wrong.
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Well I finally got it. Here's what I did.
1 - Install steam from SteamInstall.msi
2 - When you get to the "Im done, but now were going to look for updates" dialog, DO NOT hit "finish." Instead, open the task manager and kill all the msiexec processes
3 - Reboot the machine and enter "safe mode with network support" by hitting F8 just before windows starts to boot
4 - Locate and run Steam.exe, it should complete normally
5 - Reboot the machine and waste the rest of your life playing video games
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Well I finally got it. Here's what I did.
1 - Install steam from SteamInstall.msi
2 - When you get to the "Im done, but now were going to look for updates" dialog, DO NOT hit "finish." Instead, open the task manager and kill all the msiexec processes
3 - Reboot the machine and enter "safe mode with network support" by hitting F8 just before windows starts to boot
4 - Locate and run Steam.exe, it should complete normally
5 - Reboot the machine and waste the rest of your life playing video games
wow....Well, at least you got it fixed!
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waste the rest of your life playing video games
That's the best part! :x